Bangeojin is an area in the Dong-gu district of

Ulsan Ulsan (), officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants. It is located in the south-east of the country, neighboring ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

. It houses the world's largest shipbuilding plant, belonging to Hyundai. It was an ''eup'' from 1936 to 1962, when it was absorbed into the new city of Ulsan. Bangeojin was the site of shipbuilding activity beginning in 1929, when the Japanese colonial regime established an iron works there. The Hyundai shipbuilding works was established there in 1972.

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